Karsten Kohn

Research Fellow

KfW Bankengruppe

karsten.kohn@kfw.de

Forschungsinteressen

Karsten Kohn works in the economics department of KfW, KfW Research, where he is heading a team focusing on energy, environment, and municipality topics. He studied Economics at the universities of Kiel, Urbana-Champaign, Mannheim, and Frankfurt. He received his Ph.D. from Goethe University Frankfurt in the year 2007.

His main research interests are in entrepreneurship, labor economics, climate and the environment, and applied econometrics.

He joined IZA as Research Affiliate in the year 2005 and became Research Fellow in 2008.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11650

Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Karsten Kohn, Solvejg A. Wewel

published in: Creativity and Innovation Management, 2018, 27 (3), 295-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8219

Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

Jörn Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich

published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6217

The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

Helmut Fryges, Karsten Kohn, Katrin Ullrich

published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53 (S1), 251-277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5708

The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany

Karsten Kohn, Dirk Antonczyk

published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4778

What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business

Marina Furdas, Karsten Kohn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4441

The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4114

Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Véronique Genre, Karsten Kohn, Daphne Momferatou

published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3356

Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn, Alexander C. Lembcke

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 169-197

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2849

Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany

Karsten Kohn, Alexander C. Lembcke

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv/Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2007, 1 (3-4), 247-261